Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a growing awareness of downtown as one of our primary assets -- that it's an economic driver and one of the reasons people live here.

Ben Bernanke

There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop precipitously.

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

I think we have a tremendous number of assets in the region, and getting those assets marketed to the right people is going to be key to how the region grows, and how fast it grows.

Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

Mark Thompson

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

Jane Greer

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Investors have been pouring money into dollar-denominated assets this year, where returns are higher.

Investors are favoring lower-cost funds and are putting more assets into them.

Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been better than expected.

Alan Greenspan

investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities compromises the efficient allocation of our capital -- which?is so essential to raising our standards of living.

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

In the case of the Link REIT, the government sold off the assets too cheaply, providing hedge funds like the TCI with an immediate upside.

In a disaster, no state in the Union has all the assets to do what will be needed.

If you're North Korea, why would you give up, in essence, your family jewels -- your military assets ... all you have left -- when we really don't have much on the table?

Intangible assets are not subject to taxation in Michigan.

In short, what we seem to be seeing is a state banking system that is increasing in relative numbers and decreasing in relative size, ... Going forward, there is every indication the relative decline in the assets of state banks will continue.

In our own case, I think that the highest in the last three or four years, we have been roughly $3 of assets per dollar of equity,

In November 2003 we merged Galaxy Entertainment Inc., with the Canadian assets of Cineplex Odeon Corp and named the company Cineplex Galaxy

It has the most significant port operations on an island nation. I trust the management and will leave it to them, but given the quality of the assets there seems room on the upside.

Clearly if we are going to get consumers to consolidate their assets with us, we have to bring them in with new products and keep them here.

His assets are strength and speed. There's no doubt he can skate at this level. He's actually an above-average skater at this level. He just needs experience at this level.

Robert Pozen

His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.

Chinese oil companies need to go overseas to seek energy assets and the government encourages that. The price at which they pay for the assets must still be within the limits of the companies.

Cable & Wireless owns a fairly eclectic bunch of assets which no single buyer is likely to want.

I'm not surprised to see private equity make a big move like this -- private equity has significant assets that need to be invested.